Sample On-Hold Messages for Proposition 12

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Use your telephone system’s "on-hold message" to educate patients and other callers on the importance of registering to vote and voting "YES on 12." Here are some sample messages that you can use or modify as you see fit.

Register To Vote And Vote For Proposition 12

What do 8, 9, 12, 13, and 14 have in common? You can't vote for Proposition 12 on 9/13 unless you've registered to vote by 8/14. Please help keep doctors in our community, treating patients like you. Register and then vote YES on Proposition 12, on Sept. 13.

Are you registered to vote? If not, then please register to vote by August 14th. Remember, your physician can feel like a trusted member of your family -- help keep him or her in practice by registering to vote by August 14, and voting YES to Proposition 12 in mid-September.

Please help keep doctors in our community, treating patients like you, & me. Vote YES on Proposition 12, on Sept. 13. ‘Course, you’d better check to make sure you’re registered to vote by August 14. And you can vote early, too… whatever you do, please preserve your right to quality health care -- vote Yes on 12.


Proposition 12 Only

Your physicians do their best to help you when you need it. Here’s a chance for you to help your physicians, while increasing the likelihood that they can stay here to practice medicine as long as you need them: Vote "Yes" on Texas Proposition 12. Please jot it down -- election day is Saturday, September 13, or you can vote early -- whatever you do, vote "Yes" on 12 -- because you want your doctors to continue to be around when you need them.

Hi, this is Dr. Jones with a quick message. I practice medicine because I enjoy treating you, your family, and all of my other patients. But I and physicians like me all over Texas need your help so we can keep serving people. Please vote "YES" on Proposition 12 in September.

Please help keep doctors in our communities, treating patients like you, & me. Vote YES on Proposition 12, on Sept. 13. ‘Course, you can vote early instead… either way, preserve your right to quality health care -- vote Yes on 12.

Hi, this is Dr. Jones. Many women in our state can’t find a physician in town to deliver their baby. Some accident victims can’t get a surgeon to mend their wounds in time. Their doctors have been forced to retire early, or find a better state in which to practice medicine.
In MY Texas, that just should not be happening. Stop it now- vote YES on Proposition 12. Please help keep good doctors where they should be -- practicing medicine for our neighbors. Vote Yes on 12 this September.

Hi, this is Dr. Jones. Did you hear the one about the good Texas neurosurgeon who moved to Vermont so he could continue to practice medicine? Well, it’s no joke. And we all need to vote Yes on Proposition 12 in September, so more stories like that do not come true. Please, vote Yes on 12, and keep good docs here in Texas where they belong!

Hi, this is Dr. Jones with a prescription for the health of you, me, and all Texans: Vote Yes on Proposition 12 in September. That’ll help good doctors keep practicing medicine in their hometowns where they belong. Please, vote Yes on 12 in September.

Last Published: 3/25/2005

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